Material symbols
Subtitle: culture and economy in prehistory
By: edited by John E. Robb.
Contributors: Robb, John E.; Visiting Scholar Conference (13th : 1996 : Southern Illinois University at Carbondale)
Series: Occasional paper / Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale ;; no. 26; Occasional paper (Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Center for Archaeological Investigations) ;; no. 26.
Publisher: Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Carbondale
Language: eng
Number of pages: 414
Subjects: Economics, Prehistoric -- Congresses.; Commerce, Prehistoric -- Congresses.; Social archaeology -- Congresses.; Ethnoarchaeology -- Congresses.; Material culture -- Congresses.; Antiquities, Prehistoric -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Based upon papers presented at the Center for Archaeological Investigation's Thirteenth Annual Visiting Scholar Conference, held March 30-31, 1996, at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale"--P. x.
Table of contents: title: Secret agents: culture, economy, and social reproduction / John E. Robb; title: Structure, agency, and the locus of the social: why poststructural theory is good for archaeology / John C. McCall; title: On the genesis of value in early hierarchical societies / Richard Lesure; title: Why Maya lords sat on jaguar thrones / Mary W. Helms; title: An economy of substances in earlier neolithic Britain / Julian Thomas; title: Structure strikes back: intuitive meanings of ceramics from Qale Rostam, Iran / Reinhard Bernbeck; title: Marking territory, making territory: burial mounds in interior Virginia / Gary H. Dunham; title: Prestige, agency, and change in middle-range societies / Dean J. Saitta; title: Symbolic dimensions of animals and meat at Opovo, Yugoslavia / Nerissa Russell; title: Symbolic artifacts and spheres of meaning: groundstone tools from Copper Age Portugal / Katrina T. Lillios; title: Tradition, community, and Nilgiri rock art / Allen Zagarell; title: Metals, symbols, and society in Bronze Age Denmark / Janet E. Levy; title: Olmec thrones as ancestral altars: the two sides of power / Susan D. Gillespie; title: Multiple sources of prestige and the social evaluation of women in prehispanic Mesoamerica / Julia A. Hendon; title: The value of tradition: the development of social identities in early Mesopotamian states / Geoff Emberling; title: Representations of hegemony as community at Cahokia / Timothy R. Pauketat and Thomas E. Emerson; title: Material symbols among the precolonial Swahili of the East African coast / Chapurukha M. Kusimba; title: Elite identities in Apalachee Province: the construction of identity and cultural change in a Mississippian polity / John F. Scarry; title: Wampum: a material symbol of cultural value to the Iroquois peoples of northeastern North American / Gary S. Snyder; title: Comparability, equivalency, and contestation / Michael Fotiadis; title: Digging through material symbols / Alex W. Barker.